Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

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                            Introduction
        Pablo Picasso is a well renowned artist from the early 1900s. He was born on October 25 1881, in Malaga, Spain where he learnt and went to college. Through his father, Don Jose Ruiz Blasco, Pablo Picasso learnt new skills and got exposure since his father would take on the duty of teaching him from the age of five. Jose Ruiz used to paint and hold lectures as a professor at a local school teaching art and crafts. He taught Pablo his skills and concentrated on Pablo's classical art education, giving up his art career to primarily teach him. He gave him his equipment when he found him having completed a painting of a pigeon that he had had started. His father would later in his life come to paint again (Sateren 7). He influenced and exposed Pablo to many art forms due to his many acquaintances in art school and through exhibitions.
Pablo Picasso’s biography
        Pablo visited Paris for the first time with his friend Carlos Casagemas at the age of nineteen. Here, he lived with a friend, Max Jacob, for a while before Carlos passed away. Pablo was forced to sell some of his paintings while he burnt others to keep warm during those hard times when Jacob used to work during the days as Pablo worked during the nights. Jacob was a journalist and a poet, while Pablo painted. Pablo once published his first magazine, 'Arte Joven', in Madrid with his friend, Soler, fully illustrating his first edition marking the time when he started signing his paintings as Picasso, instead of using his full names, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. His early works are recognized as having been influenced by his family; the father's exposure and the passing away of his younger sister, Lola, who was only four at the time. He is believed to have started his real work and career around 1894 when he made a painting called 'First communion' at the age of fourteen, depicting his father and his other...